The song “Somewhere I Belong” is about a person who feels out of place and alone.
This person has nothing to say and it’s his fault.
The one thing he wants is to find a place where he belongs. The main issue in this poem is about depression and it is conveyed through underlying messages and the tone.

The person in this song is depressed because he doesn’t fit in and even starts to blame himself. The Words “i wanna heal i wanna feel what i thought was never real i wanna let go of the pain I’ve felt so long. erase all the pain til its gone i wanna heal i wanna feel like im close to something real. "i wanna find something ive wanted all along somewhere i belong”

These lyrics could suggest that the singer is reaching out and explaining what he has been longing for, or something that he has needed in his lifetime. “I wanna let go of the pain ive felt so long” this could be an indication that he was abused as a child and didn't feel like he belonged.

“ It is not the way i had imagined it all in my mind”, The singer could be explaining that as a child he picked a path which he thought would become good but in the end but made him more miserable and depressed.

They have nothing left to say they are surprised that they have made it this far and its not the way they thought it would be they have no optimism left because they don’t know why everyone is looking at them differently, they feel like its all down hill and nothing will get better and its all their fault.

This part is about healing... doing it on their own they and fixing what was wrong they are trying to find themselves and try to fit in to a group or belong to something which makes them feel wanted.

The words “i will never be anything til i break away from me, i will break away. ill find myself today” The song could be explaining one persons struggle with drugs, which...

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...﻿Belonging is achieved by many paths.
Belonging is a fundamental desire inherent within humans. However, there are various ways to attain a sense of belonging as it can be gained through the forging of relationships to people and places or through the understanding and sharing of similar cultural and religious identities. In Tate Taylor‘s film “The Help”, Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “Migrant Hostel”, regardless of whether people attempt to discover belonging under the biased American social context in 1963 or under immigration boom in Post War Australia, the paths lead toward belonging are significantly explored through the actions undertaken by the characters either to maintain one’s belonging or to establish a new sense of belonging.
Undoubtedly, a powerful sense of belonging can be attained through a person’s connection to places and the strong human relationships. In Feliks Skrzynecki, Feliks’s desire to maintain his belonging to his Polish heritage is achieved through his connection with his garden as he “loved his garden like an only child”, the simile compares the garden with his child which emphases his familial and intimate relationship with his garden and his home. The garden is a symbol of his Polish identity/autonomy, consequently this strong affiliation with his Polish culture empowers his preservation of...

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‘An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices, but also by the attitudes of others’. Belonging is an individual’s feeling or level of security and comfort relating physically or mentally to one’s social life. The ‘sense of belonging’ to a place, object or person, allows someone to express who they are, not only to themselves, but also to others in a comfortable way that is accepted. The prescribed texts that I have used to identify the power of own choice, attitudes of others and external factors that influence a person’s sense of belonging; include two poems from Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’, ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’. Another two related texts that I have identified to have significant meaning and relation to the statement, include Ian Kim’s watercolour painting ‘Alienation’ and an anonymous online feature article called ‘The challenge of being a Muslim in post-9/11 America’ from a website called ‘The Guardian’.
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...Acceptance and understanding are necessary for a sense of belonging.
|Good morning/afternoon teachers and fellow students. I am here today to talk about and demonstrate how different texts show that acceptance |
|and understanding are necessary for a sense of belonging. |
|Belonging is a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of himself in relation to others and the wider world. |
|Belonging is based on how we feel about the connection we have with the group we belong to. |
|Different texts show ‘acceptance’ and ‘understanding’ of belonging in diverse ways, some of which are: |
|A contrast between different characters’ or groups’ perspectives about belonging. |
|A change in an individual’s or group’s attitude to belonging over time. |
|An individual’s choice to “not belong” or barriers which prevent him from belonging. |
|An individual’s potential to challenge or enrich a community or a group. |...

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As said by Jeanne Elium,“the conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.” I partially agree with this quote however this dominant struggle between these ideas doesn’t commonly occur during adolescence stage but throughout our whole life. Hello everyone and I welcome you to this Wellbeing Conference on Belonging. After I have spoken to you, you might all just wonder if the two ideas that I will speak about today relate to you and change your perspective on the idea of Belonging.
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...﻿Belongingspeech
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...“Belonging fulfils our emotional needs”
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